Senior Analyst-Protection ACAPS Colombia Bogota

Position: Senior Analyst – Protection, Colombia Analysis team

Contract: National contract

Reports to: Team Leader               

Supervision of: None                           

Budget responsibility: None                  

Duty Station: Bogotá, Colombia

Travel: Possible travels inside Colombia                                            

Duration & contract type:  Fixed term, through 30 August 2025, 100% (with the possibility of renewal)

Eligibility: Candidates with the right to live and work in Colombia

Starting date: ASAP / 1 March 2025

Please include your CV and cover letter (both in English) when submitting your application. English is the operating language for ACAPS

About ACAPS

Who we are: 

ACAPS is an independent analysis provider. We are an independent analytical voice helping humanitarian workers, influencers, fundraisers, and donors make better-informed decisions and respond more effectively to disasters.

What we do: 

We inform crisis response: We aim towards reshaping the humanitarian narrative by providing timely and independent needs analysis, data, training, and methodological tools while advocating for a more evidence-based response to crises.

We collaborate with honesty and Creativity: ACAPS maximises synergies with humanitarian responders, specialised analytical organisations, academic institutions, the private sector, and civil society and encourages them to implement a collaborative approach.

As humanitarian needs continue to rise steeply, there is an increasing parallel demand in the sector for high-quality, independent analysis to guide resource prioritisation and programmatic responses. ACAPS is uniquely positioned in the humanitarian architecture to respond to these challenges, operating as a global public good to the humanitarian sector by providing independent, multi-sectoral analysis to enable humanitarian stakeholders to better understand and address the needs of crisis affected populations across the globe.

ACAPS is a project hosted by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and governed by a Consortium of NRC, Save the Children and Mercy Corps. ACAPS is currently at an exciting stage of its growth trajectory, with a fast-expanding decentralised global team. Due to an increased awareness of ACAPS value add to the humanitarian sector, ACAPS conducts analysis on crises in Afghanistan, Colombia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Ukraine, and Yemen with team members working within many of these countries. This is in addition to multiple global teams providing analysis spanning over 150 countries and 100 active crises worldwide.

Colombia Analysis Hub

In 2021, ACAPS joined the Mecanismo Intersectorial de Respuesta en Emergencias (MIRE – Intersector Emergency Response Mechanism), composed of NRC, AAH, ApS, and MdM and funded by ECHO. The ACAPS Analysis Hub provided analysis on the armed conflict in Colombia and its humanitarian impact, and an evidence base for humanitarian decision-making, enabling a more effective and more efficient humanitarian response. The analysis produced by ACAPS furthermore helped to provide visibility to the humanitarian impact of the conflict.

The analysis produced by ACAPS includes analysis of humanitarian needs and trends, thematic analysis, and forward-looking analysis, including risk analysis. ACAPS furthermore provides technical support and methodological advice to the consortium partners. 

The project ended in March 2022. Following this first experience, ACAPS established a new consortium with 3iS and IMPACT-REACH, focused on information management, the EVIDEM consortium (Evidence-based Decision-making). Through this new collaboration, ACAPS will provide independent analysis and technical support to contribute to a strengthened humanitarian response, creating a robust evidence base for strategic, program and operational decision making. ACAPS analysis products are multi-sectorial in scope, and integrate descriptive, contextual, in-depth anticipatory analysis, using human-centered approach to understand how diverse population groups in complex environments are affected by multiple risks, including a gender and protection approach. The association of those 3 partners will allow better coherence and efficiency in delivering information management and analysis products to the wider humanitarian sector in Colombia, including continued support to the MIRE mechanism, and will support better decision making. 

Purpose of the position

The Senior Analyst - Protection plays a pivotal role in planning, designing, and advising analytical products focused on the humanitarian crisis in Colombia. This position requires a strong understanding of the humanitarian context in Colombia and also, knowledge of the Ecuador context is desirable. The Senior Analyst leads analytical products and processes related to both countries and acts as the primary internal and external liaison for protection-related matters, ensuring strong engagement with the humanitarian architecture. Based in Bogotá, this position oversees the strategy for monitoring humanitarian crises in Colombia, leveraging expertise to support evidence-based decision-making.

Operate in line with the ACAPS values

We share and strive to maintain the values of agency, candour, integrity, diversity, evolution, ambition, and collaboration in everything we do. The post holder is expected to develop the position in line with these values. The ACAPS values live in the way we manage our teams, create our content and engage with stakeholders. 

We are an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.

ACAPS is a humanitarian Project hosted by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).

Please include your CV and cover letter (both in English) when submitting your application.